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UPDATE: Less than 24 hours after I drafted this, Scoop-it announced the move from beta to public release. * * * * * I hope I’ll be forgiven for how long it has taken me to write Part 2 of this article. I know, I know, everyone says they’re really …
Last week I had the immense pleasure to give the keynote address at the IABC Africa Regional Conference. The theme of the conference was the “Communication Revolution”. The organizers were a little worried that some people might feel the conferenc…
The multitude of social networks and tools available today can be daunting. It feels like the world is fragmenting more and more. But there are tools that make it possible to connect these dots, to find people with shared interests and to zero in …
Because I recently purchased a digital recording with Dragon Naturally Speaking voice recognition software, I am currently on the mailing list of their e-mail newsletter. About halfway down today’s long and text-heavy (even after I enabled the pic…
A report I ran across yesterday from Thomson Reuters on organic food made me think of the old expression “lies, damn lies and statistics”. The series of monthly polls asks Americans about healthcare and is reported by National Public Radio (NPR), …
Some people say that social media are changing the way we communicate. Others — and I am one of them — say that social media aren’t changing how we communicate; technology now simply allows large-scale communication over great distances that mir…
When I was a little girl, I used to say that if I married a man whose name was easier to spell than mine, I would take his; if his name was harder to spell, I’d keep my maiden name. My view has changed, in part due to technological changes that ha…
Photo: istock (Update: In paragraph 2, it was Véronique Perret, not Isabelle Huault, who cited the example of a geological map. They co-teach a course in epistemology in my Executive Doctor of Business Administration course.) Maps are such familia…
If you visit the website of the Loews Vanderbilt Hotel Nashville, you have the impression that it’s a nice upscale business hotel but interchangeable with numerous other hotels you may have seen in other cities. However, it only takes a few minute…
The title of this post might seem blindingly obvious, but apparently it isn’t. Last week, at an IABC France event on adapting global communications campaigns to local markets, a speaker talked about the need to adapt taglines (and other branding e…
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